Biography
Jack Kevorkian was an assisted-dying campaigner imprisoned in Michigan following his second-degree murder conviction for the death of Thomas Youk. The November 1999 Observer reports him actually serving his prison term. The Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society’s March 2009 State Bar journal supplement records his physical release from Lakeland Correctional Facility on June1,2007 after eight years actually served, corroborated by contemporaneous release coverage. The political and legal campaign is recorded alongside the murder conviction. Custody in the Thomas Youk case began on April 13, 1999, when he was sentenced, denied bail and escorted from court in handcuffs. The retained portrait is the individually identified 2005 Michigan Department of Corrections mugshot in the journal, not the separate magazine cover.
Jack Kevorkian was an assisted-dying campaigner imprisoned in Michigan following his second-degree murder conviction for the death of Thomas Youk. The November1999 Observer reports him actually serving his prison term. The Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society’s March2009 State Bar journal supplement records his physical release from Lakeland Correctional Facility on June1,2007 after eight years actually served, corroborated by contemporaneous release coverage. The political and legal campaign is recorded alongside the murder conviction. Custody in the Thomas Youk case began on April 13, 1999, when he was sentenced, denied bail and escorted from court in handcuffs. The retained portrait is the individually identified2005 Michigan Department of Corrections mugshot in the journal, not the separate magazine cover.
The Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society records a ten-to-twenty-five-year imposed sentence after the Youk murder conviction, distinct from Kevorkian’s three acquittals in assisted-suicide trials in 1996. The imposed term is not his actual time served.
The April 14, 1999 Associated Press report records Kevorkian being escorted from court in handcuffs after sentencing on April 13 and denied bail pending appeal. This is the start of custody in the Thomas Youk case, not his March 26 conviction while still on bail. The Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society documents physical release on June 1, 2007. Sources: https://archives.nd.edu/Observer/v32/1999-04-14_v32_122.pdf (page 5); https://www.michbar.org/file/barjournal/article/documents/pdf4article1490.pdf (PDF page 31).
